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单词 contender
释义
contender
noun[C]
uk
/kənˈten.dər/us
/kənˈten.dɚ/
someone whocompeteswith otherpeopletotrytowinsomething:
竞争者；争夺者
Nowaged42, he is nolongerconsideredaseriouscontenderforthetitle.他今年42岁，人们已不再认为他是夺冠的热门人物了。
Synonyms
challenger
competitor
rival
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Competing and contending (non-sporting)
  • be one up onsomeoneidiom
  • bid
  • cat
  • catchup
  • chancer
  • close-run
  • competition
  • contest
  • dare
  • go toe to toeidiom
  • hyper-competitive
  • in the gameidiom
  • intercollegiate
  • jostle
  • runners and ridersidiom
  • showing
  • slugfest
  • snap atsomeone'sheelsidiom
  • super-competitive
  • toe
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(Definition ofcontenderfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

contender| American Dictionary

contender
noun[C]
us/kənˈten·dər/
someone who isqualifiedtocompetetowinsomething or toachieveapositionofleadership: :
He is atopcontender forSenatemajorityleader.
(Definition ofcontenderfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcontender

contender
This principle is important, because it excludes some candidates as contenders for the status of the sympathetic base.
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These successful revisions show that the activation-synthesis model is still the maincontenderamong models seeking to show how dreams are generated.
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When a word contains more than onecontenderfor heaviest syllable, the rightmost non-final candidate is stressed.
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When this is done onecontenderimmediately thrusts head and shoulders above the rest.
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But at no point do the contenders accept its definition as grounded in some detectable mistake, one that can be corrected through standard problem-solving methods.
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But at no point do the contenders accept its definition as grounded in some mistake.
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However, when the variance is large, the action of thecontendermust be the opposite to the action of the challenger.
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The expansion of the problematic includes the questioning by the contenders of their adversaries' factual, methodological, and conceptual presuppositions.
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This book is a seriouscontenderto be the textbook of choice for the undergraduate students.
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Moreover, there is a long tradition of populist or technocratic presidential contenders who, despite losing, attracted substantial popular support.
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The interest of the collection at hand is that the main contenders in this interpretative battlefield are present.
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Outside of engineering, specialists in medicine or law would be strong contenders to use the approach.
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Interpretations are perceived as embedding presumptions that bias the debate - a fact that contenders naturally want to take advantage of.
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Eachcontenderresorts at least on some occasion to the entire gamut of stratagems available.
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Nevertheless, however devious, the stratagems chosen by acontendermust at least bear the appearance of conformity with the implicit norms of the argumentative game.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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Collocationswithcontender

contender

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championship contender
Despite the moderate success of team during these years, some alumni had grown accustomed to the programs' stature as a perennial nationalchampionshipcontender.
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leading contender
Our car industry, not least in my home country, is aleadingcontenderin the fields of development, research, performance, the environment and safety.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
main contenders
The interest of the collection at hand is that the main contenders in this interpretative battlefield are present.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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